介绍： 《穿条纹睡衣的男孩》由爱尔兰编剧、制片人约翰·伯恩创作。八岁男孩布鲁诺一家随着纳粹军官父亲的一纸调令，由柏林搬迁到乡下，布鲁诺偷偷结识了铁丝网另一边的同龄男孩施穆尔，并时常带给他食物吃，施穆尔是布鲁诺惟一的朋友。一天布鲁诺决定，要去铁丝网的另一边帮施穆尔找到他的父亲……

【Chapter Six：The Overpaid Maid】

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介绍： 《穿条纹睡衣的男孩》由爱尔兰编剧、制片人约翰·伯恩创作。八岁男孩布鲁诺一家随着纳粹军官父亲的一纸调令，由柏林搬迁到乡下，布鲁诺偷偷结识了铁丝网另一边的同龄男孩施穆尔，并时常带给他食物吃，施穆尔是布鲁诺惟一的朋友。一天布鲁诺决定，要去铁丝网的另一边帮施穆尔找到他的父亲……

【Chapter Six：The Overpaid Maid】

Some days later Bruno was lying on the bed in his room, staring at the ceiling above his head. The white paint was cracked and peeling away from itself in a most unpleasant manner, unlike the paintwork in the house in Berlin, which was never chipped and received an annual top-up every summer when Mother brought the decorators in. On this particular afternoon he lay there and stared at the spidery cracks, narrowing his eyes to consider what might lie behind them. He imagined that there were insects living in the spaces between the paint and the ceiling itself which were pushing it out, cracking it wide, opening it up, trying to create a gap so that they could squeeze through and look for a window where they might make their escape. Nothing, thought Bruno, not even the insects, would ever choose to stay at Out-With.

'Everything here is horrible,' he said out loud, even though there was no one present to hear him, but somehow it made him feel better to hear the words stated anyway. 'I hate this house, I hate my room and I even hate the paintwork. I hate it all. Absolutely everything.'

Just as he finished speaking Maria came through the door carrying an armful of his washed, dried and ironed clothes. She hesitated for a moment when she saw him lying there but then bowed her head a little and walked silently over towards the wardrobe.

'Hello,' said Bruno, for although talking to a maid wasn't quite the same thing as having some friends to talk to, there was no one else around to have a conversation with and it made much more sense than talking to himself. Gretel was nowhere to be found and he had begun to worry that he would go mad with boredom.

'Master Bruno,' said Maria quietly, separating his vests from his trousers and his underwear and putting them in different drawers and on different shelves.

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